Language Sample Analysis
CONTEXT: The child in this language sample is female, three years old and her name is Millie. She is playing with dolls and stuffed animals like a green frog and a giraffe on the carpet in front of a sofa in the living room at her house. Her native language is English. She is seen and heard talking to her college age sister Madeleine who is not visible in the video. Millie seems very comfortable, chatty and overall happy to be role playing with her sister. They are actively engaged in conversation, taking turns asking and answering questions pertaining to the toy frog, Barbie dolls, the giraffe, watching a video; specifically “Alice in Wonderland”. Their mother is heard but not seen is in the background of the video. …show more content…
She is at Brown Stage V. She had one hundred and two utterances in the entire sample. Millie used sentences that took on several different forms, including Declarative, Negative, Interrogative, Embedded and Conjoined. She uses declarative sentences like "Here is a cute frog" and “Hey! Hey! Let’s go see Alice Wonderland”. There were a few negative sentences present like "He no like that frog" and “Oh, maybe I not working” She has the ability to be interrogative. An example will be "You help me?" She is also able to conjoin and use some embedded sentences. For instance, "yeah maybe I throw him in a cage" Her morphological structure in the language sample under Grammatical Structures included Present Progressives words like “crying” “working” and “matching” which can be heard in the sample. She used prepositions like “in” seven times. She uses a lot of Articles constantly throughout the sample. There was use of regular plurals, for example, shoes, guys and babies were used a few times. She used Irregular and Regular Past Tense, Uncontractible and Contractible Auxiliary and Contractible Copula. However, there was no morphological structures for Possessives, Uncontractible Copulas or Third Person Regular Present Tenses, nor Third Person Irregular
CONTEXT: The child in this language sample is female, three years old and her name is Millie. She is playing with dolls and stuffed animals like a green frog and a giraffe on the carpet in front of a sofa in the living room at her house. Her native language is English. She is seen and heard talking to her college age sister Madeleine who is not visible in the video. Millie seems very comfortable, chatty and overall happy to be role playing with her sister. They are actively engaged in conversation, taking turns asking and answering questions pertaining to the toy frog, Barbie dolls, the giraffe, watching a video; specifically “Alice in Wonderland”. Their mother is heard but not seen is in the background of the video. …show more content…
She is at Brown Stage V. She had one hundred and two utterances in the entire sample. Millie used sentences that took on several different forms, including Declarative, Negative, Interrogative, Embedded and Conjoined. She uses declarative sentences like "Here is a cute frog" and “Hey! Hey! Let’s go see Alice Wonderland”. There were a few negative sentences present like "He no like that frog" and “Oh, maybe I not working” She has the ability to be interrogative. An example will be "You help me?" She is also able to conjoin and use some embedded sentences. For instance, "yeah maybe I throw him in a cage" Her morphological structure in the language sample under Grammatical Structures included Present Progressives words like “crying” “working” and “matching” which can be heard in the sample. She used prepositions like “in” seven times. She uses a lot of Articles constantly throughout the sample. There was use of regular plurals, for example, shoes, guys and babies were used a few times. She used Irregular and Regular Past Tense, Uncontractible and Contractible Auxiliary and Contractible Copula. However, there was no morphological structures for Possessives, Uncontractible Copulas or Third Person Regular Present Tenses, nor Third Person Irregular